Here’s a mightily airbrushed official new photo of Heroes’ Zachary Quinto as Spock on the cover of the US magazine Entertainment Weekly, promoting next year’s much-anticipated big-budget Star Trek movie.

Directed by Lost and Fringe-maker JJ Abrams, the film stars Chris Pine (we hadn’t heard of him either, so we looked him up and found out he’s been in CSI:Miami and Six Feet Under) alongside pointy-eared Quinto, who has hinted that the latest Star Trek franchise could be the first of many.

‘It is a multiple-picture deal,’ he says. And of Spock: ‘The interesting thing is that you meet this character before you ever knew him on the television series and the other movies, so [this film is] an exploration of how he got to that point.’ Will we find out if Spock has a first name? ‘You’re going to have to wait and see!’

At the moment, Star Trek is slated for a 9 May 2009 UK release. Here’s the teaser poster and trailer…